Program Rationale
The Homewood-Flossmoor High School Fine Arts Department believes that the quality of a student’s life is uniquely enriched by the development of skills and values learned in the creation and/or performance of the Fine Arts. Study of the Fine Arts encourages students to function on multiple intellectual, analytical, thoughtful, and expressive levels.

Music expresses feelings in ways unique to music among all of the arts and between all other forms of knowing. Aestheticians say that music is analogous with life - the feelings it expresses are those of life experiences. We believe that students engaged in studying, listening to and making music have unique and essential opportunities for enriching their lives through the development of skills and values used in creating, performing and listening to music.

Music is a performing art. A performance before an audience provides a very tangible goal for rehearsal instruction. The challenge and discipline of creating and refining music is more keenly felt when the culmination is a public performance. Not only is the performance a means of both individual and group evaluation, it is also a maturing educational experience for each performer.

Program Goals

For more information about the Music Department, email Dr. Mike Rogers at mrogers@hfhighschool.org

Music

Students will ...

1. Sing or perform on instruments, alone & with others, a varied repertoire of music;
2. Improvise on melodies, variations & accomplishments;
3. Compose and arrange music with specific guidelines;
4. Read and notate music.
5. Listen to, analyze and describe music;
6. Evaluate music and music performance;
7. Understand relationships between music, the other arts and disciplines outside of the arts;
8. Understand music in relation to history and culture; and
9. Model excellence and discipline through the process of performing music in large ensembles.

Concerts

Each musical organization works toward a minimum of one performance in each grading period.

Concert programs include selections from diverse cultures and styles.

Concert programs strive to both educate and entertain the audience.

Students participate in concert situations where listening skills are utilized and assessment techniques are employed.